Environmental Justice Network Australia

The Environmental Justice Network Australia is an informal, multi-disciplinary network of individuals and organisations committed to working together to research, advocate for and create projects that support environmental justice for all communities in Australia. The network includes individual researchers, activists, community organisations and universities from around Australia.

Environmental justice can be defined as involving four aspects:

the fair distribution of environmental goods and harm;

the recognition of human and non-human interests in decision making and distribution;

the existence of deliberative and democratic participation

the building of capabilities among individuals, groups and non-human parts of nature

The Australian Earth Laws Alliance is one member of this growing network. We have hosted several Environmental Justice workshops and events; we assist communities to connect with researchers and legal support regarding environmental justice issues and we also auspice the Network’s webpage and facebook pages.

AELA is working with the Western Downs and Wider Unconventional Gas Group (WDWUGG) and a range of other civil society groups to co-host a People's Tribunal into the Human Rights Impacts of Unconventional Gas. The Tribunal will be held in Brisbane on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th February, 2016.

The Australian Environmental Justice (AEJ) research team at RMIT University is creating a public online database of cases of environmental injustice — for affected communities, campaigners and educators. The AEJ project has Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) as a partner and is associated with the EU-funded international Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project (http://www.ejolt.org/project).

If you would like the AEJ team to look into a specific case, have any comments or suggestions, or you’d like to be involved in any way — by offering data on cases of environmental injustice, by interviewing campaign and community experts, by collating data into case studies and creating fact sheets — please contact: Associate Professor Anitra Nelson at RMIT on this email - anitra.nelson@rmit.edu.au

For more information, please click here or visit this webpage - https://www.foe.org.au/australian-environmental-justice-project

HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE EJ NETWORK

Please email AELA’s National Convenor, Michelle Maloney, to be put on the Network mailing list or to find out more – convenor@earthlaws.org.au

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The Australian Earth Laws Alliance acknowledges that the sovereignty of the First Nations People of the continent now known as Australia was never ceded by treaty nor in any other way. AELA acknowledges and respects First Nations Peoples’ laws and ecologically sustainable custodianship of Australia over tens of thousands of years through land and sea management practices that continue today.